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Monthly Archives: March 2013

‘You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist …

Why should heterosexuals be the only ones to endure marriage? For too long gays have gone around having single fun while poor married heterosexuals suffer in silence.Well, this video shows what their in for. And I for one say it’s about time they suffered like the rest of us.

For nearly twenty years Mark Story has been travelling the world taking pictures of centenarians. In that time he’s amassed over 15,000 portraits. Rather than take pictures of his subjects in their environment Story has chosen to shoot just the face on a deep black background and lights to emphasize the subjects wrinkles, which when …

Sayaka Murayama is a London based Japanese photographer with a thoroughly distinct look and feel. She definitely utilizes her heritage to create startlingly avant-garde images. The work sort of reminds me a little of her countryman Araki and fashion photographer Paolo Roversi, while at the same time feeling utterly unique. Flowers and nature seem to …

It seems Tim Flach isn’t alone in taking distinctive animal portraits. Morten Koldby has had as similar idea and has done a series of shots depicting the almost human expressions of our animal cousins. It’s almost as if these animals were children going to have their photos taken by the school photographer.

Alexandra and Christian Benetel have more in common than a family name. This brother and sister share the same passion for photography and at a young age are starting to create some distinctive portraits. By turns dream-like, vulnerable and pensive their images have a similar look and feel and suggest a view into a very …

What is it about southern artists and decay? Whether it’s photographers like William Eggleston or writers like Flannery O’Conner, the south seems to be a great place to show things going a little to seed. Of course decay and death needn’t to be moldy and unpleasant it could be beautiful in the right hands like …

Vittorio Senna, Ansel Adams and a few others apart, I’m not big on landscapes. It’s such a familiar medium it’s very hard to make things seem different. Which is why I admire and totally respect Michael Kenna. His black and white landscapes are instantly recognizable and instantly distinctive. Kenna photographs at dawn or at night …